It was the perfect ride in the Peak District - until some cretin on a motorbike thought it would be hilarious to slap my bottom, both degrading and destabilising me with one gloved whack. By Helen Pidd

Hey'Ya: Arab Women in Sport opens at Manchester's National Football Museum on 26 July, running until 13 October. The exhibition features Brigitte Lacombe's series of large photographs of Arab sportswomen from 20 different countries shown alongside videos by Marian Lacombe

Do we treat people in poverty as an undeserving underclass, hapless victims, or potential agents for change and transformation? As Church Action on Poverty is discovering, ordinary people can do extraordinary things

Madeline Linford is a largely forgotten name, but that may change thanks to Up then, brave women!, a tour of feminist, suffragette and other women's sites in the city. Michael Herbert designed the route. He tells more

To mark World Entrepreneurship Day today, Yorkshire inventor Emily Cummins talks to Amy Byard about what kick-started her entrepreneurial flair, and reveals for the first time her plans to revolutionise the British education system